Hon Yost Schuyler

Hon Yost Schuyler (1 January 1744-1810) was a mentally-ill American loyalist during the American Revolutionary War whom Benedict Arnold used in a ploy to end the Siege of Fort Stanwix.

Biography
Hon Yost Schuyler was born on 1 January 1744 to Peter Schuyler (allegedly a cousin of General Philip Schuyler) and Elisabeth Barbara Herkimer (sister of Nicholas Herkimer). His family had patriot sympathies, but he socialized more with the Mohawks than he did with the whites of the area, and he decided to join the Indians and the loyalists during the American Revolutionary War. He was used by the loyalists to keep the Mohawks under their thumb, but in 1777 Benedict Arnold captured him at the Siege of Fort Stanwix. Arnold had the dim-witted and lunatic Schuyler return to the British and Iroquois and tell them that a very large American army was arriving, scaring them into retreating. Hon Yost was released by Arnold as a result, and he returned to fighting with the loyalists; he died in 1810 after the war's end.